Line-stretcher.



P. H. BUUH.

LINE STRETCHBR.

APPLICATION FILED PEB.17, 1914.

1,1 30,063, Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL H. BUCH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO EMMET MoCABTI-IY,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LINE-STRETCI-IER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL H. Boon, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Line-Stretchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for stretching clothes lines and the like, and has for its object to provide a simple and eflicient structural formation and combination of parts whereby the stretching or tensioning of a clothes line or the like is conveniently eifected, and with which the parts are automatically held or locked in their tensioning condition, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l, is a perspective view illustrating the preferred form of the present invention. Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the same, with the parts shown in full lines in a partly tensioning position, and in a fully tensioning position in dotted lines.

Similar reference numerals indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawing, 1 represents a pivot bracket comprising a pair of separated pivot ears 2 carried by an orificed base plate, and adapted for attachment to the upper rail of a fence, or to an upright by means of an intermediate block.

3 is a stretcher bar or lever pivoted intermediate its length between the pivot ears 2, aforesaid, and provided at its upper end with an open eye or hook for engagement with a loop or bend in the clothes or other line.

5 is an operating handle pivoted to the lower end of the stretcher lever 3, and having its hub portion formed with a lateral arm or cam member 6 adapted to have operative bearing against the lower portion of the base plate of the pivot bracket 1, aforesaid. lVhile such cam member 6, is preferred on account of its simplicity and ethciency, it is within the scope of the present invention to substitute other ordinary and well known means for manually imparting an adjustment to the lower end of the stretcher bar or lever 3, aforesaid.

In practical use, the handle 5 will he initially moved up into adjacent relation to the upper and hooked end of the stretcher lever 3, and a loop or bend of the clothes line engaged with the hook or open eye 4 of said stretcher lever. The user then swings the handle 5, downward, into the position illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 2, to impart the required tension to the clothes line.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A llne stretcher, comprising a bracket member, a stretcher lever pivoted to said bracket and having at one end an open line engaging eye, and a cam associated with the other end of said lever and the bracket 1nemher to effect a movement of said lever, substantially as set forth.

2. A line stretcher, comprising a bracket member, a stretcher lever pivoted intermediate its length to said bracket and having at its upper end an open eye, and a handle pivoted to the lower end of said lever and having a lateral cam arm adapted for operative engagement against said bracket, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of February, 1914.

PAUL H. BUCH. lVitnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, Earner MCCARTHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Gommissicner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

